Improvement in bag-holders



G. D SWEIGBRT.

Beg Holder.

l. Patented May 3,1870.

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titled' gettito @aient @MiliteeEoEGE D. SWEIGERT, v0E MARTIo TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA,y ASSIGN'OR To MIM SELF AND SAMUEL ESHLEMAN, oF SAME PLACE.

Letters Plz-font No; 102,616, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-HOLDERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

lo all whom it ymay conclu-ny I, GEORGE D. SwEIGEn'r, of Mar-tic township, in thc count-yet1 Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedvcertain Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of my invention Vis to combine a simple bag-holder, readily made, adjustable in height, folding together so as to occupy but little space, and adapted to bags of different lengths and breadths.

The accompanying drawings clearly show the construction and manner of' using my invention.

Figure lshows the bag-holder, with a hopper, and bag to be filled.

Figure '2 shows the holder folded together.

Figure 3 shows the top in position, with the hopper and bag removed.

Figure 4, the hopper.

A brief description is deemed sutlicient to enable any one skilled in the art to make and usc my invention; this consists of four-supporting pieces, A A A A', hinged at top in pairs, by a headed bolt, with screw and nut, or rivet, united below by a cross-piece,` `B, in pairs, so that one slides into or between the outer two, as shown.

The holder: consists of two head-pieces C C, united together by two rods EA E, parallel to each other, leaving an open space to receive the mouth of a bag around saidrods in the head-pieces, an adjustable or loose head-block, I), sliding on said rods, to adjust for narrower-bags.-

A hopper, H, tapering so that it may be adapted to narrower or wider bags, is set-into the mout-hof the bag, spread open over the rods, and is firmly clamped and held open by the hopper, and greatly facilitates the filling in of bags 5 and, although simple, hasmany advantages over many that operate by springs and catches or other contrivances more complicated, and subject to get out of order.

I am aware that numerous devices are used, such as in patent No. 63,383, April 2, 1867. This com sists of a cross-frame, like asaw-buck, travels on rollers, which diiers substantially from my invention.

I am not aware of a bag-holder with head-pieces united byrods, with or without an intermediate adjustable sliding head-piece, held jointly between the top ends of spreading foot-pieces, joined, as shown, by cross-pieces, and used and shown.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, anddes'ire to secure by Letters Patent, isr The arrangement of the supports AiA with the head-pieces C O, united by therods E, between the hinged upper ends of the said uprights, with or without the sliding adjusting block D, and the hopper H, all combined, in the manner and for the, purpose described.

GEORGE D. SWEIGERT. Witnesses WM. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER.

and adjusted as set forth 

